Utz Rothe

Rothe followed his art training at the 'Akademie de Bildenden Künste' in Vienna under the instructions of Robin Christian Andersen, Hessing (?)

From 1967 till 2000, alongside Rothe's profession as an artist, he had a career as an art teacher and later came to lead the weekly 'Aktzeichnen' at the Kunstler-Haus in Vienna.

Entering into his workspace, one finds chaos, leaving barely a centimeter uncovered, the room is filled with finished and unfinished works of art, objects and muddle as if approaching an overflowing 'Wunderkammer'.

Nonetheless, although his graphics instigate a feeling of unease, as if he is in fact touching underneath our skins, showcasing or posing abstract connotations of our reproductive organs, he enables dialogue, revealing that topics such as sex and death are still taboo.

The shapes and figures that one can find in his graphic art might allow one to feel that Utz Rothe does indeed carry a fascination with the sciences and our anatomic system, as one of his critiques has suggested.